http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/01/31/monsanto-worst-company-of-2011.aspx?e_cid=20120131_DNL_art_1 1|1|Saw a documentary on them, it wasn't nice. Even the seeds we plant are gmo...sad|blessedx5|I_am_blessedx5@yahoo.com|12:51:16|02/01/2012|
..... 2|2|Yeah, I've watched several interviews with farmers who have been sued by them. It is a really shameful thing!|sunriver|sunriver@gmail.com|14:24:24|02/01/2012|
It took some time for more folks to hear about their practices, but it seems that they have a pretty negative (and well deserved) spotlight on them now. 3|2|Go MON go (target: $100)|papercut|It7ly@aol.com|00:38:28|02/02/2012|
Posted on Feb-02-12 at 00:38 AM (Eastern) by 69.140.172.18
I bought in under $50/share about 1.5 years ago based on the shellacking they were taking from cheap Chinese glyophosphate (Roundup) dumping and weak adoption of their newest GMO traits.
I'm not ready to book profits yet, based on the following from Morningstar [edited to add:] and the necessity of feeding 9 billion people by mid-century.
"Monsanto is still bouncing back from a series of missteps and misfortune that have plagued the company (and its stock price) during the last couple of years. An overly aggressive pricing strategy for the firm's latest technology, SmartStax corn seeds and Roundup Ready 2 Yield soybeans, led to weak uptake, price cuts, and lower than anticipated profitability from the firm's increasingly important seeds and genomics business. Seeds are more important for Monsanto today because profits from the firm's other business, crop chemicals, have fallen off a cliff after glyphosate overcapacity forced Monsanto to basically cut Roundup prices in half and reset expectations. Adding to the company's drama, the federal government has started poking around Monsanto's business, looking for antitrust violations. While this list of bad news sounds daunting, we still believe Monsanto is the premier player in agricultural biotechnology. The company possesses a promising pipeline of seed products and with a few tweaks to its strategy (in our opinion, the firm needs to become more "farmer friendly"), we think Monsanto will right itself and continue generating shareholder value for years to come."
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